GRAFUG September 2011 Meeting Recap

Thank you to everyone who joined us on September 10th for another great GRAFUG meeting. We had a great double session!

Main Presentation

Programming Standards and Guidelines for Software Craftsmanship: by Rick Schummer

Rick gave a terrific session on programming standards and guidelines. It was a session everyone should see. Whether you are already disciplined and have a
great system of standards and guidelines that you adhere to, this session will give you new ideas of how you can enhance your productivity by following
experienced and seasoned guidelines. As we stated on our web site this is a session that will be available at Southwest Fox. So be sure to keep this one
in mind when you are planning your schedule. You will truly enjoy this one.

Fox on the Run: by Eric Selje

Eric gave a great presentation on using Foxpro to develop web based apps that you can you use with mobile devices. This is an exciting new avenue for us programmers
to explore. This also will be available as a session at Southwest Fox.

Wrapping Up

The following Swag was handed out.

Name

SWAG

Mike Potjer

Water Bottle

Mike Lyzun

SQL Server 2008 Book

Jody Meyer

Arc Mouse

Lisa Martin

Water Bottle

Next Month

To Boldly go Where no VFP'er Has Gone Before - The Tools of Thor (Session I) & (Session II) Practice Session by Jim Nelson

There are a number of valuable tools that are available in other development environments, but are sadly lacking in FoxPro's own IDE. For some time, there has
been a considerable effort afoot to expand the list of IDE tools by reproducing (where possible) the tools from other IDEs (such as Visual Studio), by building
on and enhancing existing tools, and by creating brand new tools appropriate to FoxPro.

The most visible of these new tools is named Thor. Thor is a tool for managing add-on tools in the IDE. It provides a unified method for registering other tools, simplifying the task of disseminating them, and a user interface to control the assignment of hot keys and developer-defined menus. The UI provides four different methods for accessing these tools:

By assigning hot keys to them

By creating pop-up menus accessible via hot keys

By adding them as bars under any of the VFP system pads (File, Edit, View, etc.)

By creating new pads in the VFP system menu and adding them as bars under these new pads

Final Thoughts

A small but spirited group met for lunch afterwards. It was great fun. What a nice way to bond and share war stories.